WD Blue 2TB M.2 SATA SSD with up to 560MB/s read speed

Bought this SSD (500Gb M.2 Blue) to upgrade a new laptop I had bought, a HP Gaming 15 which only came with a 1tb mechanical drive and was sluggish in Windows, but otherwise the specs were great for a low end gaming laptop. (I5 8300h, 16gb Ram, GTX1050Ti £600 US to UK import). Installation was a breeze, and after booting to the drive and installing the OS the machines responsiveness has increased exponentially. The machine went from 1m15s boot time to around 8s. Windows and apps now open instantly where as from the 1tb mechanical drive it could sometimes take 3-5 seconds to open certain windows or apps. This drive series (Blue) is a great mid range, mid price product designed more towards faster random read/write performance than the WD Green series which is more designed towards power saving and efficiency. Both have similar large file transfer speeds but the Blue edition have much quicker random read/write speeds which is more beneficial in an OS environment. If you need balls to the wall performance then the Black series is the one to go for, albeit with an increased price tag. These current series of blue M.2 drives have also just been replaced with newer quicker line of products carrying the same product names, but again at an increased cost. For price / performance these Blue series drives hit the sweet spot especially for boot drives where you'll be storing your operating system.

I have a HP Envy X360 15XXXX which came with a 128 M.2 SATA SSD (C:) with the system drive on and a standard 1TB 2.5" SATA drive (D:). I initially configured it so that the bulk of installed app files went to D: drive with only the essential ones going to C: drive. However, two and a half years on and C: was quite full. I decided to go for I purchased the 500GB M.2 version of this drive, along with a Sabrant M.2 SSD 2.5inch SATA III Aluminium enclosure adapter (EC-M25A). I already had a WAV Link dual bay SATA III disk cloner which will also act an external drive bay. I downloaded a free version of AOMEI Backupper for copying. For managing the disk, I used two built in utilities - Windows Powershell - needed to remove partitions. Windows Disk Management (Found under computer management in Control Panel). This is used firstly to mount the new disk and give it a drive letter. I suspect some who reported the disk DOA failed to do this. Also for managing the partition sizes. I proceeded as follows: 1. Having created recovery disks, the recovery partition was obsolete as it is a one-time deal creating the media. I used HP recovery manager to delete the partition - except it doesn't, it just deletes the data. 2. I used Powershell to delete the partition and there are instructions here if you don't know how to do it https://www.windowscentral.com/how-delete-drive-partition-windows-10 3. I inserted the new drive into the Sabrant adaptor, placed it in a bay of the WAV Link SATA bays and connected it to the USB 3 port. (There us a USB-C version of the adaptor to connect directly to a USB C port if you don't have a dive bay) 4. The drive is not detected in Windows until it has been mounted, so I opened Disk Management > Storage and found the unmounted drive. I right clicked and used the wizard to do a basic mount and assign it F: Drive. 5. I opened AOMEI Backupper and selected the clone option from the left-hand side. I selected the Disk Clone option from the bottom row. 6. On the next screen, I selected Disk 0 - the one with Windows on - as the source disk. 7. On the next screen, I selected Disk 2 - the new disk and the destination. Hit OK and it took less than 10 minutes to clone. 8. I then opened Disk Management and found the cloned volume at 118GB with around 350 GB of unallocated disk. 9. I right clicked on the cloned windows partition and selected 'Extend Volume' and allocated the maximum available space and the new window volume increased to 465GB. I removed it from the adaptor. 10. I turned of the Laptop, removed the rear cover and disconnected the battery by removing all the screws and lifting out. 11. I then located the current disk, removed the screw and replaced it with the cloned disk. 12. I reconnected the battery, replaced the cover and booted up the machine. There was a pause and a message as the BIOS had detected the hardware change. It then rebooted through to windows and everything looked hunky-dory. 13. The I ran all major applications and everything was sweet. It was as if I had done nothing, except the was an appreciable increase in speed, especially on boot up. and Windows hello was working great every time - it had started to hang and drop to PIN access. The disk has been sweet since Monday (now Thursday) and I am considering up grading the D: to an SSD as well. So far - very happy. I am of course keeping the Old disk safe . . . . just in case!

Its over a year since I bought it and its still working

This M.2 has been amazing in my pc and I have been using this M.2 for a couple of years now. Highly recommend this item if you are on a budget and would like a small M. 2 storage.

I bought this M.2 SATA SSD to replace the 5400rpm mechanical hard drive in a laptop. As someone whose never installed an SSD before, I cloned the old drive to it quite easily using the free version of Macrium Reflect (with the help of a YouTube tutorial), installed the drive with no problems, and everything booted up successfully. Yay me! I'm going with 4 stars rather than 5, as it has not made quite as big a difference to Windows boot up speeds as I expected. Everything does load up a bit faster - but not hugely so. If anything, the increase in battery life from the new SSD is more noticeable than the improvement in boot speeds. As others have noted, you need a screw to install the SSD and this is not included. If you don't have one on your motherboard, the Dell website will currently sell you a single M2 screw for 35p delivered - the only place I've found where you can buy them individually.

I picked one of these up to use in a Mini ITX build that has limited space for 2.5" or 3.5" drives. I wanted something large capacity that I could use in the M.2 slot to take full advantage of it. SPEED / GENERAL Nothing too technical here as the super specific details don't matter that much to me generally - its very fast, just like any standard SSD. Not NVME speeds however at a certain point you get diminishing returns on speed (is 8 seconds to boot to Windows instead of 10 seconds really worth spending twice the cash?) and I'd much rather have a 1TB thats still pretty fast than a 500GB for the same price. Windows boots quickly, games load quickly, Adobe software loads quickly - nothing more I could want. I have a 2019 MacBook Pro that are well known for having super fast SSDs however in all honesty I've hardly noticed any difference when booting Adobe on both the machines. OVERALL For the £115 this cost me it is an excellent drive and I'd buy one again any day of the week. 5/5.

I have used several of these WD Blue SSD drives in my own system as well as in other system builds I do for my customers. They are reliable, fast, and easy to maintain. There are other drives out there that are faster, of course. The Samsung Evo drives come to mind. However, SSD drives in general are almost always better then standard HDDs, and at the smaller price point, the Western Digital Blue SSD drives are a great option without taking a huge hit in performance. I recently used this 250gb drive in a gaming build I put together for a customer. The Windows 10 boot time is user 35 seconds with 8GB of ram installed on a Ryzen 5 2600 system. The boot times of course will vary depending on the other system specs, but this drive is very fast. I personally use a 2TB M.2 version of this drive, along with a 2TB 2.5 SATA version of this drive on my own build for gaming and video editing. Both of them have been working fantastic. I did have to RMA the 2.5 version at one point, but that was due to the computer's power supply issue. WD's customer service on the RMA was easy to deal with, and I had no issues getting a replacement drive. It did take a couple weeks, but shipping from the east coast the west coast does take some time. I've been a Western Digital user for over 10 years now, and their drives never disappoint. I've used green, red, blue, and black drive models in my own systems, and in system builds I do for my customers, and the drives never give me any issues. Highly recommend them.

Almayı düşünen varsa daha yorumun devamını okumadan ödemeyi gerçekleştirebilir. + Amazon paketlemesi ve kargolaması gayet başarılı. + WD SSD programını indirip kullanım detaylarını izleyebilirsiniz. + Samsung ile arasında büyük bir fark yoktu. İnce detaylar vardı. İkisi de pişman etmez büyük ihtimalle. Aldığım tarihte bu üründe kampanya vardı o yüzden tercih ettim. + M2 Modeldir. + NVME modeli değildir. Kesinlikle böyle bir beklentiniz olmasın. + Özellikle eski masaüstü ve laptoplarda kesinlikle farkını hissedersiniz. Açılış süresini çok fazla etkiliyor. + Yeni donanım kuranlar bunun üzerine depolama yapabilir, sisteminiz destekliyorsa NVME alın kesinlikle çok daha iyi olacaktır. + Eski donanımlar NVME desteklemediği için şansınız bu o yüzden gönül rahatlığıyla tercih edilir. + 2.5 HDD boyutunda olan SSD almak yerine anakart üzerinde M2 soketiniz varsa bunu alın. En azından CD-ROM sökmek ile uğraşmazsınız.

This being a SATA (vs NVME) SSD is targeted more for a storage HDD rather than boot drive. Fantastic price bought during year-end promotion. Getting about 160MB as reported by Windows 10 File Explorer when copying a directory of 1TB from HDD, connected by putting it in a Oricco M2. SATA to USB 3.0 box. Something to note, at first I used a very durable Baseus braided cable which was normally used for charging. It worked but realised later the very slow speed I was getting was due to the cable. Switch to the very short cable which came with the Oricco box and it flies. Not all cables are the same - I learned something about the Baseus cable that I liked so much.

Lo usé para sustituir un SSD de 256 GB de una lap fabricada en el 2017. El programa de diagnóstico del fabricante me reportaba que el SSD original estaba ya defectuoso, aunque en realidad nunca me falló más que para leer un sector específico. De cualquier manera, aprovechando el cambio quise aumentarle la capacitad de almacenamiento del equipo a 500 GB, pero sin gastar demasiado. Aparte que los SSD SATA III ya son escasos. Y ahora tras el cambio del disco el mismo programa de diagnóstico no me detecta ya ningún defecto, tampoco hubieron problemas de compatibilidad. La caja del SSD WD dice que puede leer hasta una velocidad de 560 Mb/s y escribir hasta 530 Mb/s: en la realidad, en mi lap lo máximo que pude obtener fueron velocidades de transferencia 493 y 413 Mb/s respectivamente. Aunque si comparo con el desempeño de la anterior memoria de marca Micron contra este WD, en teoría el desempeño es 43% mejor. Creo que producto es bueno; funcionó mejor de lo que esperaba inicialmente de hecho; mi única queja sería que el proceso de envío fue algo tortuoso, debido en parte al proveedor y en parte a la paquetería. Yo creo que nunca vuelvo a comprar algo que no sea enviado por Amazon. De eso ya hablaré luego en la evaluación del proveedor "Paguito".

Ottimo SSD per sostituire quello da 256 GB per il Huawei Matebook D di un mio amico. La versione da 1 TB è perfetta per chi lavora con foto, video ed ha la necessità di archiviare una quantità di dati notevole. Il montaggio è fin troppo facile. Per il portatile in questione, dopo aver clonato il vecchio SSD con quello nuovo tramite il software ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE, è bastato rimuovere le viti sul pannello inferiore con l’aiuto di una ventosa e una sim ed estrarre semplicemente il vecchio sostituendolo con quello nuovo. Un gioco da ragazzi! Consigliatissimo!